Did Tracy Morgan offend again?

Tracy Morgan returned to the world of stand-up comedy over the weekend with a gig at Carolines comedy club in New York.

And now the question is: Will he soon be issuing another apology?

He started out by suggesting that he had been misunderstood with his offensive anti-gay remarks made during his June 3 show in Nashville, reports The New York Times.

"My father was the lead singer in the Village People," he cracked. "I would sing the Y.M.C.A. the loudest. I was sitting right there when he wrote the song, my daddy. The Indian was my godfather."

Whatever he had been accused of, Morgan said, "I don't have that in me. I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man."

But toward the end of the night, after a raucous set that included a lot of flirting with women in the audience, according to the Times, Morgan warned, "Don't ever mess with women who have retarded kids." As groans and cries of "Uh-oh" were heard, he continued, "Them young retarded males is strong. They're strong like chimps."

And he concluded with a bit about his alleged teenage romance with a girl he described as "a cripple" with a prosthetic arm, a mechanical larynx and a portable dialysis machine.

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